Please, tell me how “paying for hardware costs is enough”…

  • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    Yep. This is it. “Leftists” on Lemmy really love the. exploitation of free labor. As long as it’s DeCeNtrALiZeD exploitation.

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      “Oh c’mon man, it’s your hobby, right You’d do it anyway?”

      Also, it wasn’t exactly just leftists, but also my leftist friends who were always asking for “friend prices” when I drove them around when I drove a taxi. Like… you guys are getting special service, and I’m your friend, you get to skip the hour of waiting and fighting other drunks in the taxi queue.

      It also would’ve been different if there was the chances of favours in return.

      So like people who could actually help with the labour or in something other way put in work, maybe they’d be okay with just covering the hosting costs, but modding a community isn’t exactly the same work as maintaining the soft- and hardware. Alone, I presume.

      And also is the “hosting costs” just like the costs of the services for the hosting, or does it incorporate all the cost for electricity to run the equipment as well?

      Is it lack of empathy or greed? I never really could figure that out. Feels like a bit of both.

      • WaterFoul@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        It sounds like he doesn’t have any business hosting the site if he lacks the technical acumen to do it well.

        • Dasus@lemmy.world
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          9 days ago

          Technical acumen?

          You do realise things don’t happen just because you know how to do them? You still actually have to do them.

      • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 days ago

        Also, it wasn’t exactly just leftists, but also my leftist friends who were always asking for “friend prices” when I drove them around when I drove a taxi. Like… you guys are getting special service, and I’m your friend, you get to skip the hour of waiting and fighting other drunks in the taxi queue.

        Seems like bad friends, whatever the political preferences are

        • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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          9 days ago

          Leveraging connections is both very human and of variable social acceptability depending on a lot of circumstances.

          What would actually make them a bad friend is not being willing to return the favor.

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      9 days ago

      If providing a completely voluntary service is too much of a personal burden, the solution is to stop doing it. No one is being exploited, all relationships on Lemmy and Mastadon are completely voluntary by design.

      Personally I don’t mind the idea of Lemmy embracing a syndicalist financial model or something of that nature but you’re simply spouting a bunch of entitled nonsense.